Mystery Markets

In his 1/11 chat, Earl Staggs offered a list of his favorite markets for short mystery stories. He was kind enough to let me post the list here for all of you.

Some of Earl's favorite magazines

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
http://www.themysteryplace.com/

Apollos Lyre
http://www.apolloslyre.com/

Back Alley
http://www.backalleywebzine.com/

Blazing Adventures
http://blazingadventuresmagazine.blogspot.com/

Crime and Suspense
http://www.crimeandsuspense.com/

Mouth Full of Bullets
http://www.mouthfullofbullets.com/

(I think this one has closed, but you can check it out)

Mysterical-e
http://www.mystericale.com/

Spinetingler
http://www.spinetinglermag.com/

Thrilling Detective
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/

Thuglit
http://www.thuglit.com/

On these sites, you’ll find lists of markets in all genres:

http://www.shortmystery.net/markets.html
http://www.duotrope.com/digest/
http://storypilot.com/
www.kimberlybrown.net/markets_galore.htm
http://www.marketlist.com/
http://www.ralan.com/

Huge thanks to Earl for sharing this information. Buy his book to say thanks!

The Future of Books?

Pat Bertram's blog hosted a great discussion, written by Dale Cozort. I'm posting the link here to try and start the discussion in our Wednesday chats.

Please read the first post at http://ptbertram.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/future-of-books-the-problem-of-filtering-part-1/ .

I'll be bringing this up in chat for the next couple weeks! You might want to do your homework. ;-)


Audrey